I use the free version of ChatGPT (without logging in) when I need some one-off question without a huge context. Real world prompt:

  "when hostapd initializes 80211 iface over nl80211, what attributes correspond to selected standard version like ax or be?"

It works fine, avoids falling into trap due to misleading question. Probably works even better for more popular technologies. Yeah, it has higher failure rates but it's not a dealbreaker for non-autonomous use cases.

Even the paid version of ChatGPT tends to use a 1000 words when 10 will do.

You can try asking it the same question as Claude and compare the answers. I can guarantee you that the ChatGPT answer won't fit on a single screen on a 32" 4k monitor.

Claude's will.

If someone blindly submits chatbot output they deserve to be embarrassed and fired. But I don't think that's going to improve.

The free version of ChatGPT is insanely crippled, so that's not surprising.